prosecutor and nbc news analyst kendall coffey as well as defense attorney and former prosecutor karen desoto with a welcome to both of the you. kendall, who gets to question the suspect? >> well, right now they've lined up questions by the high value questioning group which apparently includes components of fbi, cia, and defense. they're going to be following civilian rules. but taking a very broad view of the public safety exception. so that they can question him for at least some significant period without mirandizing him. >> some significant period, karen, means how long? how can they talk to him without a lawyer? because this is civilian court that we're talking about. >> yeah, absolutely. listen, we have this public safety exception which basically says that maybe there's some explosive devices, of course, alex the problem with that is that the boston police have already said that there's no threat. they gave you the all-clear. obviously the federal authorities are going to say, yes, but we don't know if there's co-conspirators. we don't know if there's bombs in other people's ho